Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1887-12-08
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Opinion Of O Fashionable Woman Of the
world.


Opinion of a Fashionable Woman OF the
edo YOU expect to win in your dress re-
form movement" was asked of Mrs. Annie
Jenness- Miller, 10 E. 14th ST., New York,
editor of Dress.
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"Why do you object to the present
at is ungraceful, deforming and injuri-
ous."
"Do ladies generally support the reforma'
"Yes, very generaNy ext MY Ny nor Correspond ,ona
lands mine is said to be the largest daily
mail of any woman in the United States,
and from not only every State in the Union
but from almost every country 81
{ every handsomely, indeed. Dress, has
been published less than year, and I am
gratihed with reports from all over the
world of the acceptance by ladies in the
very highest rank, CT the reform which
Dress advocates"
Mrs. Miller is comely woman in appear
ance, and is very enthusiastic in her dress
reform agitation. As the New York Graphic
says: s'She herself is young and attractive,
with figure so tremendously developed as
to suggest strength, power and beauty
The reform which she IS urging with so
much eloquence and grace seems to be the
coming one. Mrs. Jenness- Miller has the
advantage of high social position, being Of
lips, and the poet, Oliver Wendell Holmes.
sit is in the fashionable world, of course
where all the styles are determined, and
where tie change must begin," she says.
How do you endure SO much work and
II dress myself according to my own
ideas, and furthermore, give myself the
best of care and treatment. Six years ago,
I was nearly exhausted from my work of
lecturing, writing, ETC."
sIndeed, you do not look like it nown'
ssNos / am not now. 1 am now per-
fectly well woman and intend to remain so.
You see I understand the laws of life too
well to be, or remain Ill, but strange as it
NAV seem for one to say who is opposed to
medicines on general principles, if I find
myself tired or feeling ill fly to the one
single remedy which do endorse, and that
is Warmers safe cure, which gives new en-
deed what sometimes call my stand by
I have many opportunities to recommend it,
and embrace them gladly, because l know
that it is thoroughly reliable, and for women
especially effective. Indeed, often find my
self recommending it to my friends as
warmly as do my magazine, or indeed my
improved garments, and this would not do
did not personally know of it's virtues"
Mrs. Miller insists that all women can and
must be beautiful, and will be SO if they
follow her style of dress and self treatment.
evil you not state, briefly, in just what
YOUR reform conSiStS!
'sOh, with pleasure! I propose jersey
fitting garment to be worn next to the body,
making of woman vision of loneliness!
ii. cover this I put a cotton or linen gar
ment, of one piece, without bands or bind
ing covering the entire body also.
Ill ''In place of the petticoats, / propose
one complete body covering garment called
'leglettes.'
". 1--WE abandon the corset entirely as
totally unfit for use, in it's common form,
and we substitute therefor a supple sup
porting waist, and then we make the out
side gown as beautiful as artistic skill and
common sense can design"
Mrs. Niiller's words of counsel, which
every woman should heed, will undoubted-
" give to the women of America some new
ideas upon subject SO very near to each OF
them.